Hello and welcome to The Daring Cardmakers blog!
We are a team of card-makers from the UK, mainland Europe and India who'll try to inspire and encourage you to make some wonderful cards.
Every Friday at about 10am UK time, one of our design team will post a new dare/challenge, along with our creations to get you inspired.
So go on, give it a try - we dare you!
Leave us a comment with a link to your card so that we can view your lovely creations too!

Thursday, December 21, 2017

Thank
you so much for sharing your cards with us last week,The Special People you made them for are going to feel so cherished and loved because of the time and thought you put into their cards.

This week, it's the last challenge for 2017 and time to take a final "Step Away from the Cards".

Anything Else for Christmas

We've shared cards, boxes and tags, so this week lets see what else we
make, or arrange for Christmas. We would love to see your sewing projects, Handmade
Decorations, Table centres, Crackers, Other home décor - absolutely anything really!

When
you're done, please come back and let us know where we can see your
creations, Here are some of ours to get you in the moodWe'd like to wish you all a Happy Christmas filled with love, peace and joy, and that's it from us till January 12th - hope to see you back here then for a whole new year of fun and inspiration!

Friday, December 15, 2017

We
loved seeing your Tags and Toppers for last week's challenge -Thank you for taking the time to add your links at such a busy time of the year.

This week its back to cards and a challenge called

The Special Ones

We all have special people in our lives and sometimes their cards get
left to last. Don't leave them till the last minute this year make and
share a card made for one of the special people in your lifeIt doesn't have to be a Christmas card, just a special card for a special person in your life

Friday, December 08, 2017

Thank
you so much for sharing your cards with us last week,It was such a beautiful photo to use as inspiration, wasn't it?

This week, it's time to take another "Step Away from the Cards" and share

some of your other creations with us.

The time the "Step Away From the Cards" challenge is:

Tags, Labels and Toppers

We'd
just love to see the tags etc that you'll be adding to your gifts to show who they are for and from! it doesn't have to be Christmas-themed, we give gifts for lots of reasons and they all netter with a vit of extra decoration!

When you're done, please come back and let us know where we can see your creations, Here are some of ours to get you in the mood

Friday, December 01, 2017

We just loved seeing all your beautiful Trees for last week's challenge. Thank you so much for sharing!

It's the 1st of December today, so time for our Elemental Inspiration Picture challenge for this month - and who knows. maybe you'll be choosing the lovely tree in this picture as one of your elements!

All you need to do to join in is to choose at least 3 elements from this picture to use on your card.

There are lots of lovely possibilities, such as the tree, hearts, stars, the textures and patterns of the blanket, floor and bricks, Nordic style elements.... and we're sure you'll spot even more than those

We're looking forward to seeing what you share with us this time, but to get you started, here's what the team have been making this week:

Friday, November 10, 2017

Thank you so much for joining in with last week's Challenge, we hope you enjoyed using that lovely cosy picture in your crafting.

It's fair to say that Christmas is on its way, and we thought we'd do the same as last year and have a bit of seasonal fun with our crafting. So for the next few weeks we'll be mixing it up a bit on here - sometimes there will be card challenges, but sometimes we';; be asking you to join us in making other things too! We call this series of challenges "Step Away from the Cards". This week though, we're sticking with card making and out challenge is

Warm Woollen Mittens

We'd like you to make a card featuring some Winter Clothing - it doesn't have to be mittens, it could be Boots, Gloves, Scarves etc. And if you are in the Southern Hemisphere and just stepping into Summer, maybe you'll be thinking more along the lines of swimsuits as we draw closer to Christmas!

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Copyright Notice

We are happy to share our designs here in the hope that they inspire you to develop your own ideas. However, please respect our right not to have our designs copied or "lifted" - direct copying of any design shown on this blog or our personal blogs is an infringement of copyright.

If you are pinning our cards on Pinterest please quote Daring Cardmakers and the individual designers name as the reference in the description.

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